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41. Winter Music Conference

    Shock and Roll

    Public Enemy's Hank Shocklee talks technology, hip-hop, and the future of music.

    By Esther Park

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Describing Hank Shocklee will run you into trouble. Only grandiose analogies such as mystical musical prophet and electro-galactic freedom fighter do him justice. A founding...

42. Music

    Darker Their Love

    Welsh quartet Bullet for My Valentine screams, aims, and fires.

    By Scott Fishman

    Published: March 20, 2008

    It was late 2006, and Matt Tuck was living the rock and roll dream. His band, Bullet for My Valentine, had spent the good part of two years traveling the world and playing...

43. Music

    Hot Blooded

    Cuban-born singer Yanelis Cortes came to this country cleaning bathrooms. Now she's live on your TV set five days a week.

    By Fernando Ruano Jr.

    Published: March 20, 2008

    On a recent Friday night in Miami Beach, the wind slices across Ocean Drive and the waves from the Atlantic pound in a deafening crescendo. Three perfectly bronzed girls,...

44. Suicide Blonde

    A Southeasterner at SXSW

    Highlights and lowlights from the nation's biggest industry extravaganza of new (and old) music.

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: March 20, 2008

    There's no two ways about it: SXSW (pronounced South by Southwest) in Austin, Texas, has, by its 21st year, grown into the most influential event in the nation for anyone...

45. Burner

    So Nice, So Smart

    Kimya Dawson is back, better than ever, thanks to a little movie called Juno.

    By John Hood

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Of all the shiny things to come about from the stellar success of the film Juno — Diablo Cody's career; Ellen Page — none was perhaps more brightly satisfying than...

46. Burner

    Now You See 'Em

    The Unseen brings a little '77-style punk to Studio A.

    By Tom Bowker

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Every major city in America has a "crusty" straight-up punk band. The members sport studded leather jackets, liberty spiked Mohawks, and dirty jeans — the uniform...

47. Burner

    Lost and Found

    Lose the Rookie reunites this weekend at PS14.

    By Abel Folgar

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Many years ago, when I wasn't completely bald, I used to book some good punk rock revues at the now-defunct Gables Pub, and one of the bands that featured frequently on my...

48. Rotations

    Autechre

    Quaristice (Warp)

    By Dave Segal

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Autechre's MO over the past decade has been to usher you through a labyrinth of thorny textures both alien and alienating while spouting complex algorithmic theorems and...

49. Rotations

    Ojos de Brujo

    Techari Live (Six Degrees)

    By Ernest Barteldes

    Published: March 20, 2008

    On this document of its 2007 world tour, the Barcelona-based, self-styled "hip-hop flamenco" band plays music from its latest studio recording of the same name while also going...

50. Rotations

    Goldfrapp

    Seventh Tree (Mute U.S.)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: March 20, 2008

    If Supernature was Goldfrapp's ode to stylish disco saturnalia, Seventh Tree is the elegy for the inevitable "Suicide Tuesdays": when clubbers ache to dispel that raisin-y,...

51. Rotations

    Beach House

    Devotion (Carpark)

    By Noah W. Bailey

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Downer duo Beach House first made waves with its 2006 single "Apple Orchard," which copped the breathy vocals and slide guitar of Mazzy Star and buried them under layers of...

52. Livewire

    Black Janet and the Atomic Cowboys

    By Lee Zimmerman

    Published: March 20, 2008

    While this particular gig might have you thinking you're seeing double, there's no need to tally up the bar tab just yet. Fact is, it's a special bill featuring the two bands...

53. Livewire

    Gloria Gaynor

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Born Gloria Fowle in Newark, New Jersey, the original club diva we know as Gloria Gaynor scored her first big hit in 1974 with "Never Can Say Goodbye." An upbeat dance ditty...

54. Livewire

    Kenny Garrett

    By Tom Hull

    Published: March 20, 2008

    With 30 million records sold, Kenny G is by far the most popular, and most hated, man in jazz, if you even grant him that categorization. His degree was in business, and his...

55. Livewire

    Ryan Morales

    By Jennifer Lima

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Starting out in New York as an intern for Wyclef, DJ Ryan Morales was originally known as Shockwave thanks to his All-State New Jersey reputation as a crushing linebacker. With...

56. Livewire

    DJ Theo

    By Arielle Castillo

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Long Island's DJ Theo is one of the few in the trade with enough versatility to love the club and — gasp! — the radio. In fact he's passionate about both. Fiery,...

57. Livewire

    Colette

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 20, 2008

    L.A. is full of starlets, celebutantes, and wannabe Playboy bunnies who are only too happy to besmirch the name and good reputation of female DJs such as Colette Marino, who...

58. Livewire

    Z-Trip

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 20, 2008

    Los Angeles resident Zach Sciacca always remembers to take listeners on a true journey — a real Z-Trip. And since so many DJs have forgotten (or never learned) how to...

59. Livewire

    Chuck Love

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 20, 2008

    As if it wasn't apparent by his moniker, Chuck Love reveals himself as something of a smooth dude when he sings. The Minneapolis-based artist, who is also a DJ and producer,...

60. Livewire

    James Zabiela

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: March 20, 2008

    James Zabiela's story is as close to a fairy tale as it gets for a DJ. The Southampton, England native won a bedroom DJ competition from a now-defunct British dance music...